Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear rather than science.

At different times I taught humanities social sciences and pre-vocational education.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let in particular school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

I did get a very fine education and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

And what is liberty whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience of education of association of the press of travel or labor or trade?

Mothers unless they were very poor didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19 when she took some training in domestic science.

My background was computer science and business school so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development testing marketing user education.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education in roads and bridges in science and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that that's what President Obama believes.

We have not given science too big a place in our education but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Now everybody I suppose is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description as science writers but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers you see but we're also realists of a sort.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Language philosophy and science are interwoven into the design of words which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying 'You haven't answered every question with evolution '... Well guess what? Science can't answer every question.

Looking back video game design seems a natural fit although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory merging the practical with the academic.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.